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44 Responses to “Greenpeace’s latest video”

Their ignorance is astounding. Has no one heard of Taranaki? I’m involved in the oil industry in Taranaki and the majority of people in New Plymouth cannot understand what all the fuss is about. We’ve been drilling offshore for 40 years.

You are probably right DPF that ‘poor little seals, and penguins covered in oil tug the heartstrings’, rather than “I would really like to thank everyone who came down here this morning, braved the winter temperatures, and covered themselves in molasses to help us make this point.”

But at the same time this does show how utterly stupid the Government was in suggesting mining Great Barrier. Whether that was a ploy to make lesser areas acceptable by comparison, or whatever belied such an unbelievable tactic, it has marked the Government as inept and careless regarding conservation.

as the above commentators pointed out, what about the Naki? How did they get to the “protest” site – walk?

and of course bikinis are made of nylon which is an oil-derived fabric, so to show they truly care, they should have disposed of (safely of course) these symbols of the evil military-industrial oil-stained economy…

Having watched the video with the sound off – no bloody way am I listening to those tossers – the only thought I had was how much detergent will it take to clean the people after the filming and how much damage to the environment will the residue from that cleaning process do?

A few of the overwieght rightists here (muzza – i’m looking at you) could learn a thing or two from these protesters. Don’t pollute your body with crap food – it’s the only one you’ll ever get. Similarly, you don’t cprap all over your environment and expect it to stay healthy.

The women in this vid look like happy, healthy and pleasant people. No wonder the kiwiblog right have such a hard time relating to them

I’ll just bet there was a hard nipple or three and like the lad up further said if they really believed in their cause the would have abandoned their synthetic (like made from oil ) kini’s and just done the job naked using real oil instead of molasses. (which is good for feeding cows and cows have mammaries don’t they?).

They would have had more fun finger painting the bodies. Mind you hypothermia might have taken hold making things a bit stiffer. Note the shakes the dolly on the right had.

As for the foreigner who was speaking. I just love it when some wanker from somewhere else in the world comes and tells me what to do in my own country. Especially one with a numb brain.

And i suppose spraying Corexit to disperse the oil and sink it to the bottom of the ocean where it’s out of sight and out of mind is pretty funny too, especially when it’s happening on foreign shores ?

So what’s gonna happen when people start eating seafood dredged from the ocean floor covered in Corexit residue. I’m pickin there should be some hilarious birth deformaties and abundnace of rioutously laughable loss of life.

i suppose we should be pissing ourselves laughing it’s not happening in our backyard eh ?

John as gratifying as your personal interest in my health is you are operating entirely on ignorance of my personal situation so perhaps you might like to stay on topic. Unless DPF starts posting “Guess Murrays Weight” or similar you’re beign tedius.

If it makes you feel better my dietician is very happy with my progress.

John, my entry would be to do a 3rd party eye on the wall ‘making of’ take one style and then stage a huge whale beaching just as they’d finished lathering up in molasses then have the whales go nuts and lick them all naked in a compelling frenzy since the whales couldn’t resist the delicious combo of molasses and lefty.

Bloody two bobs, oil comes from mother earth so how can it be the menace they claim, I thought mother earth could do no wrong. Around here the bloody stuff floats in the swaps and you can see it in slow flowing creeks and drains. I guess it’s been doing so for thousands of years and no one I know has kicked the bucket because of this. In warm water oil rapidly breaks down and is absorbed back into the environment. I have many family working in the oil industry and they pay huge amounts of tax, perhaps if these tossers want to shut down or limit the oil industry they should be willing to take a cut in their welfare cheques, to match the percentage the oil industry brings into NZ, watch the bastards squeal then.

Right now I’m on an oil production facility offshore a shithole West African country. The difference the oil industry has made to the local community here is undeniable.

As an example, there are whales (humpbacks) everywhere here, I probably see in excess of thirty a day. Due to the oil companies, there is now a thriving local whale-watching business.

Let me explain for you why this is due to the oil companies. As with most other West African nations, this place has been run by a few hand-picked dictators since christ was a cowboy. A few years ago, the previous president built a nice new airport in the local town we chopper from, guess why he built this airport….. So he could visit one of his summer houses, however he never visited and the airport was never used, just a monolith sitting in the jungle.

The whales etc. have been here forever, and so has the opportunity to visit, however, no tourist wanted to take a 12 hour ride in a bush taxi to get here.

So along come those disgusting oil companies, that you dislike so much, and they find some beautiful oil that can be exploited. Now, to exploit this oil, the oil companies need to start putting together some infrastructure, this includes opening up the disused local airport, which they start flying charters into.

Because the oil companies are now flying charters into the local airport, there is an opportunity for the locals to piggyback on this service, instead of them trying to instigate a service like this from scratch, with the fuck all money they have. Having this “development” funded by foreign private enterprise was the only way something like this was ever going to take off. Although I know that contemptible little pukes like you would prefer to steal (tax) money from people like me, just to give away to the locals here.

Now, with the arrival of flights and the occasional tourist, the locals started engaging with the tourists and showing them the sights and sounds, which included the whales, which has progressed on to a nice little tourist business. The community here in the local town is thriving and foreign money is coming into this community, enabling this community to get ahead in leaps and bounds.

Now, remind me how you and your ilk would’ve made this small community thrive. No, don’t bother. I know exactly what you would’ve done: Stolen money from the rich, siphoned off 80% of it between you and every other NGO under the sun. A tiny percentage would’ve made it to Africa, where it would have been all but consumed by a few fat politicos and more NGO workers, and if any of it had made it to the local community, it would’ve only been what you spent on a can of coke whilst visiting.

You champion the rights of the poor, yet whenever there is an opportunity for the poor to get ahead through private enterprise you scream blue-fucking-murder, because some nasty foreign company might make a few bucks on the way.

This campaign is not about the beaches or the environment, it is an anti-capitalist campaign, nothing more.

Just watched the video, took about two fuckin hours for it to completely stream, due to the poxy satellite connection. The mad stupidity of the silly bitch fronting the video is unbelievable, she states, “this is frontier technology that has never been done at these depths”, well, if she actually knew and understood anything about the oil industry, then she would know otherwise.

She also goes on to state that if there was a spill, it would ruin the economy…. What fucking economy???? A few shops selling lattes and trinkets. What about the upside of a successful discovery? More jobs, more money in the community, opportunities for the locals.

The mind boggles at the brainless stupidity of this lot, but as I said above, it is not about the environment and never is or was with the pricks, it is solely about anti-capitalism, anti-foreign investment and anti-globalisation.

Oh and the pommie cunt might as well fuck off back to england and protest the North Sea exploration, instead of protesting about something he knows nothing about, somewhere he does not belong.

A slow and clunky advert for a valid message. Of course Maui has operated safely for decades, but that is in about 100 metres of water and that is a bit different than 1500 metres as we saw with DWH. A major oil spill would be worldwide news and that would seriously impact our tourism industry, it would not be a matter of a couple of ice cream shops closing as someone above said.

Having said that, I understand the risk of a spill happening with the kind of exploration currently permitted, is zero.

DPF: girls in bikinis posing covered in dripping sticky oil… makes you want to go buy some shares in BP, and yell out “drill baby, drill”

Dude, seriously, there is plenty of good p0rn on the internet. For someone who takes his holidays in the bootiful outdoors so often your entrenched attitude of needing to ridicule environmentalism is quite surprising..

I mean, do the Greens seriously imagine that anyone on the planet who has TV is now not acutely aware of this peril?

And do the Greens seriously imagine that even if it was one of those common-or-garden evil profit-driven-obsessed monster company with huge fangs dripping with the blood of its workers, do they seriously imagine that even if such a company was to exist, that that company could fail to in future note and learn, lest it happen to it. Because even evil monster companies have a strong sense of survival, you know.

So even after having put myself into the mind of your average Green voter, I still can’t see what their point is.